What is put and take?

Put and take is fishing in water where fish are stocked to be caught. In Sweden that almost always means salmonids: rainbow trout, brown trout and Arctic char. A club, camp or operator stocks the fish, sells the permit and sets the rules. You pay for the chance to fish that fish — not for a wild stock you “find”.

The same thing is called ädelfiske, planted fish or stocked fish. You do not need the English phrase. If the lake has stocked rainbow trout and requires a permit, this is the map you want.

Not ordinary sport fishing

A fishery with pike, perch and zander is not put and take just because a card is sold. Ordinary sport fishing manages a stock. Put and take stocks fish as the product. Put and Take Sverige only lists bounded waters where stocking salmonids is the point — pond, tarn, lake or a stretch of river.

That is why you do not see every Swedish lake on the map. Uncertain candidates get no pin. We publish when the water is verified as put and take, has coordinates and a link to the permit.

Species and methods

Rainbow trout is the most common in ponds across the country. Brown trout is stocked in lakes and streams. Arctic char is more often cold water. Methods are fly, spin and bait — but not everywhere. Some waters are fly only.

The permit is part of the idea

You do not fish for free. The card is bought from the club, their site, iFiske, Swish or a machine. Put and Take Sverige does not sell cards. We link from the map and from each water page. The right of public access does not cover this fishing. Practical notes: how the permit works.

How to use this site

1. Find the water on the map.
2. Read the page: species, methods, how to get there.
3. Buy the card from the seller. Read quota and tackle there, not in an old post.